Raleigh News

New Raleigh will highlight some of our favorite 2012 local music, new restaurants that opened this year, retail and other social and cultural stories that made the year another great one in the Raleigh area.

Raleigh got a nice shoutout in the State of the Union address tonight by President Barack Obama. Speaking about jobs and General Motors returning as the number #1 automaker in the world, Obama dropped Raleigh into the mix of cities where jobs could get a push.

In 1959 Detroit was a bustling manufacturing center with abundant jobs that paid wages that made the American Dream a reality. North Carolina was the second poorest in the nation, and tobacco, textiles and furniture were about the only industries we had to speak of.